Tag: Place search

• How many names on your war memorial?

  

  I counted the First World War names on 14,119 community memorials in the Imperial War Museums register. A typical village memorial carries 18.3 names for every 1,000 people living there today, and only 36 of 6,108 small places record no dead.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  Britain, cities, Commemoration, First World War, Place search, Twentieth century, UK, war, Wikidata

• How Roman is your road?

  

  Nearly two thousand years on, 5% of Britain’s A-road network still runs on a Roman line. Which county is most Roman, which road wins, and where you can still see the old road in the ground.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  Britain, Itiner-e, Persistence test, Place search, Present day, Roads, Roman, Roman roads, Romans, Satellite and lidar, UK